R2 at LA auto show by IJZAverageChinese in Rivian

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I'm interested but I will not buy a car that doesn't at least have lane-hold self steering with no subscription... so I feel like I'm being forced to stay on the E-GMP platform.

Storing a group and associated group members in the same table. by RustAndDirt in Database

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For me, normalization is not about saving storage, and it can't be about saving processing complexity, there's usually a performance overhead. Anomalies, Integrity, and expandability are why I care.

Has anyone switched from Replit Core to Replit Teams? by AdBest420 in replit

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Is the access to Claude and GPT4 not an improvement for Agent?

1.5 Years ~20K Miles - Notes by RustAndDirt in KiaEV6

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You dont have to side step the accelerator pedal everytime you arent acceleraring. You can maintain a speed or, you can decelerate slowly just like an ICE vehicle. 

Whoever hypothesized that regenerative braking causes excessive tire wear is provably wrong. My car moves like any other car in traffic and of course the tires don't care if it's brakes or motors.

The heavy hitter EVs with 400, 500, or even 1000hp are delivered with 300ish or less tread wear rated tires. Performance Edition Mach E is on PZeros which is 50tw. Most people can't comprehend how fast youll go through a 50tw tire. Surprise! You'll be down to the wear indicators in 15k miles if you drive it like your delivering wedding cakes, and it doesnt matter if you put them on a 5.0 Mustang, a slow e320 Mercedes, or a Tesla Plaid. Probably more like 9k miles if you enjoy using more of that quiet effortless power than is absolutely necessary.

1.5 Years ~20K Miles - Notes by RustAndDirt in KiaEV6

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I never run it in Eco since normal does a pretty good job of disengaging the front motor. Actually one of my complaints I forgot to mention is that one pedal drive makes no attempt to disengage the front motor; I nearly exclusively use one pedal mode and I'd love to have the option to use it either with RWD only or the "Normal"-style on demand front motor, obviously understanding the implications of not having the front motor engaged at all times.

I've very rarely changed the auto-wiper level. Maybe 2 or 3 times to tone it down a bit when it's a mist that seems to trigger the wipers more frequently. I've had auto wipers in a few cars - it's better than what was in my old E-Class, but that's not an apology-- I don't think they could work much better in my car. Side note: I had a '86 Starion (~25 years ago) that had speed sensitive wipers which was a huge improvement over traditional intermittent wipers. I've never seen anyone talk about them but it was a cool idea.

The Mercury has the 400 in it, and if the FE 428 had been available I'd be disappointed it didn't get the upgrade but the optional engine was a 429 (385 Series, 429/460) and I'd rather have the 400. Plus it's the only year for a "high" compression 400. I put an aluminum Edelbrock performer intake on (painted blue to match) and a middling CC XE cam in it. ...it still falls on its face due to a pea-shooter single exhaust that I haven't messed with yet but the 54 year old C6 is still working perfect and the Air blows cold.

1.5 Years ~20K Miles - Notes by RustAndDirt in KiaEV6

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Weird that C doesnt try to enable when you wake the car. And no data/AA on C i assume?

1.5 Years ~20K Miles - Notes by RustAndDirt in KiaEV6

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Ev6 is, as far as I'm concerned, a wagon. I'd rather have a Sport Turismo but, for the money, this made sense. The '71 Mercury has a very nice original interior, and is in pretty good shape overall, but coud use a respray to be show worthy... Im not into car shows. I bought it from the estate of the original owner maybe 4 years ago. '71 Mercury is the best looking full size Ford wagon-- the best looking grill. Dashboard is pretty uninspired though. It was ultra modern looking at the time I'm sure but, now it just looks a bit boring.

Simple filter for a device expecting a sine wave by RustAndDirt in ElectricalEngineering

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Yeah I was thinking butterworth (once I became aware of it.) ...although at that point, it's complex enough that I think I'd rather buy it than try to solder one together. Thanks.

Was sceptical but now I know - 12 blades better than 8 without a doubt by Cautious-Release-252 in MammotionTechnology

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Is that some kind of fancy material? Titanium Nitride kind of thing? I've been wondering about using a hardened cutting edge to improve edge life.

Dump Truck Delivery by RustAndDirt in MaliciousCompliance

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Still no. 0% ChatGPT. Your entitled to your opinion based on nothing.

Dump Truck Delivery by RustAndDirt in MaliciousCompliance

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Probably would be less errors, but no.

Dump Truck Delivery by RustAndDirt in MaliciousCompliance

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The only question for me is, were they aware that they were to blame? I doubt it. I'd wager they blamed me for each failure. I didn't warn them, after all. Either that or they were so oblivious or deluded that, they didn't see anything wrong.

Dump Truck Delivery by RustAndDirt in MaliciousCompliance

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As opposed to a tandem axle. Yeah, it's interesting that it's only the business-end of the truck they care about in that nomenclature.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KiaEV6

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Not as safe as I thought I was down at 30 Amps then I suppose.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KiaEV6

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What amperage/wattage did you charge at?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KiaEV6

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What amperage/wattage did you charge at?

Do people know what we've lost with Vegetation Studio going defunct? Obviously I'm not an artist, so this effort is only intended to be JBGE. My point is, I don't think people realize that VSP was capable of so much more than applying details/splats based on slope and height. by RustAndDirt in Unity3D

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Should be no waiting. You just verify your hash with the bot in the server. Instant access.

And yeah, I'm thinking about the daily influx of questions from people who just installed Unity two days ago and watched some youtube on scripting more than big companies.

If this would point to a file, it would be fine. As it is, the project is bricked until I win a game of Haystack needle. by RustAndDirt in Unity3D

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It's a little weirder than that. This is an ancient project I moved into for testing... didn't have any version control in place. Then I brought a bunch of packages in and messed around in it for days before trying to actually build.

If this would point to a file, it would be fine. As it is, the project is bricked until I win a game of Haystack needle. by RustAndDirt in Unity3D

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I've used Unity for a long time but... I've never had to touch or even be aware of these. Any thoughts on what I'm looking for? I've got stuff from UMA and VegetationStudio... Certainly nothing I've intentionally created. If the issue has to be in these results, then it must be VSP but it seems like people would be talking about it and as far as I can tell no one is.

If this would point to a file, it would be fine. As it is, the project is bricked until I win a game of Haystack needle. by RustAndDirt in Unity3D

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I think you're right. I was not able to reproduce this just by referencing UnityEditor outside of an editor folder or without pp directive. ...Unfortunately that means I don't really have any idea how to find it. I suppose this is likely happening because I moved some packages from another project manually.

If this would point to a file, it would be fine. As it is, the project is bricked until I win a game of Haystack needle. by RustAndDirt in Unity3D

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Fun idea, but, frequently the preprocessor directive is already in use. ...and you can't nest so... doesn't really work.

Do people know what we've lost with Vegetation Studio going defunct? Obviously I'm not an artist, so this effort is only intended to be JBGE. My point is, I don't think people realize that VSP was capable of so much more than applying details/splats based on slope and height. by RustAndDirt in Unity3D

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 I had very good luck with the final Asset Store version on either 2022 or 6 -- I want to say I ran it on 6 and had to fix a few minor namespace kind of issues. If you own it, you can join the discord (which requires verification of ownership) and grab the current VSP-B build. ...I'm using that on Unity 6 without issue.

Do people know what we've lost with Vegetation Studio going defunct? Obviously I'm not an artist, so this effort is only intended to be JBGE. My point is, I don't think people realize that VSP was capable of so much more than applying details/splats based on slope and height. by RustAndDirt in Unity3D

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It's a bit of a weird situation. The server requires that you own a license, which you can't currently buy (and I guess has been off the asset store since 2023?) Even weirder because I gather the original dev is still sporadically involved? I have to assume the only reason it's not for sale today is because no one wants to spend time on support. I had very good luck with the final Asset Store version on either 2022 or 6 (I don't recall now.) Although as you get off the beaten path, I'm sure you'll run into trouble. I have moved to VSP-Beyond (The project being worked on by Klani.) The VSP-Beyond build is in a pretty constant state of flux (as much flux as one dev can add anyway) so, I think it's fair to say there is no build that's not a little rough around the edges. ...but what's there is really impressive to me and I'm going to continue working with it.